I want to get away from "It's either government or the market. " That's a false dichotomy. - Douglas Massey

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Douglas Massey

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market. " That's a false dichotomy.

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For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

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The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.

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I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties.

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Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

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You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.

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I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

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Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

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My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

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